Oregon State University, cannabis compounds show the ability to prevent the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 from entering human cells.
The study was led by Richard van Breeman, a researcher with Oregon State's Global Hemp Innovation Center, College of Pharmacy and Linus Pauling Institute.
The study was published in the Journal of Nature Products. The two compounds commonly found in hemp, called cannabigerolic acid, or CBGA, and cannabidiolic acid, or CBDA, were identified during a chemical screening as having the potential to prevent coronavirus.
In the study, the compounds bound to spike proteins found on the virus and blocked a step the pathogen uses to infect people. Get your top stories delivered daily! Sign up for FOX 11’s Fast 5 newsletter.